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Gossamer Penguin : ウィキペディア英語版 | MacCready Gossamer Penguin
The Gossamer Penguin was a solar-powered experimental aircraft created by Paul MacCready's AeroVironment.〔 The Penguin was a 3/4 scale version of the Gossamer Albatross II, and had a 71 ft.(21.64 meter) wingspan and a weight, without pilot, of . The powerplant was an AstroFlight Astro-40 electric motor, driven by a 541 watt solar panel consisting of 3920 solar cells.〔 Initial test flights were performed using a 28 cell NiCad battery pack instead of a panel. The test pilot for these flights was MacCready's 13-year-old son Marshall, who weighed . The official pilot for the project was Janice Brown, a charter pilot with commercial, instrument, and glider ratings who weighed slightly less than . She flew the Penguin approximately 40 times before a public demonstration at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center on August 7, 1980.〔 ==Specifications==
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